US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on Dec. 30 for "Inductor and method for manufacturing inductor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,257, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Inductor and method for manufacturing inductor" was invented by Takumi Arai (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Motoki Toyama (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Hiroyasu Mori (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor includes a core containing magnetic powder and a conductor embedded in the core. The core includes a mounting surface facing a mounting substrate side at the time of mounting, a pair of end surfaces orthogonal to the mounting surface, a pair of side surfaces orthogonal to the mounting surface and the pair of end surfaces. The conductor ha...